NRA Pays $63K Campaign Finance Fine In Rhode Island (Click on this heading to read the original post)
Eric Lach - February 21, 2014, 5:35 PM EST1481.
The National Rifle Association has paid off the second largest campaign finance fine in the history of Rhode Island, The Providence Journal reported on Friday.
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The pro-gun group paid the $63,000 fine on Jan. 27, a few days after reaching a settlement with the state's Board of Elections. The settlement came in response to a complaint filed last year by a group called The Rhode Island Progressive Democrats, which argued that at least as far back as 2002 the NRA had failed to disclose donors to its state-based political action committee (PAC).
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According to the Journal, the state's Board of Elections ultimately found that the NRA's state PAC had violated state law by not creating a separate bank account for funds it had received from the NRA's federal PAC.
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The Rhode Island Progressive Democrats told the newspaper it will now look at whether the NRA may have broken similar laws in other states.
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